Welcome back to season five of Enter the Bible, a podcast in which we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

In episode 8 of season 5, Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson returns as our guest. Her most recent book is “A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans.” She lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan.

Today our theologians will be answering the listener-submitted question, “What Are Beliefs Concerning the Book of Revelation? Premillennialism, Postmillennialism, Amillennialism?”‘

Show notes

Biblical books and passages mentioned

  • Mark 13
  • Revelation 20:1-6

Topics, themes and figures mentioned

  • Millenium
  • Second Coming of Christ
  • Devil/Satan
  • Pre-Millenialism
  • Post-Millennialism
  • Amillennialism
  • The Enlightenment
  • Restoration of all things
  • Apocalyptic language and literature
  • Numerology
  • Irenaeus of Lyons
  • Magisterial Reformation
  • John Nelson Darby
  • Plymouth Brethren
  • First World War
  • Dispensationalism
  • Felix culpa/happy fault (fall)
  • Left Behind Theory

Works mentioned/recommended